bhe (Joseph)

Even in ’38 whatever very few places might have accepted a handful of Jews, certainly nowhere no place even that early would have accepted masses of Jews. At most a few here and there. (And whatever quotos they were willing to accept were generally filled anywhere.) So the accusation that we could have escaped is mostly baseless.

It isn’t a good idea to seek out a “singles community” as they breed a sense of normality and prolong, if not indefinitely, this state. The UWS is a bad example of this phenomenon.

PAA: If you’re going to use the “machlokes” angle, then 1) you surely should have no objections calling Yanklowitz an apikorus based on *us* holding of the Rambam (and CS) and 2) you apparently accept finding and practically holding from any or every quaint and generally unaccepted halachic opinion buried anywhere in the sources to basically hold whatever you happen to find, however rejected that opinion is (such as the corporeality of Hashem.)

zd: The Novominsker wasn’t concerned with his followers falling for these deviants. He was primarily concerned with the out of town communities where these malcontents are taking rabbinic pulpits and/or otherwise influencing local Orthodox communities.

PAA: How do you answer the CS? And how do you answer Rambam?

Aaron Chaim: ???? ???? ????? predates the Arizal and it was not established by the Arizal. The nusach the Arizal established is what is effectively known today as Nusach Sefard. It is what many Chasidim use but it was established before Chasidim and not by them.

Sam2: That is what doesn’t make sense. It’s okay to call him by his Hebrew initials but not his English ones? He was quite happy going under his English name. He certainly was far better known (and called) Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik than he was called by his Hebrew name during his lifetime.

(Many of his students may have called him “rav” when speaking to him just like any other rov’s or rebbe’s talmidim call him rebbe or rov. Rav Yoshe Ber, while used to an extent during his lifetime, only became popular posthumously.)

akuperma: What financial benefits are there for a couple to be married versus living together unmarried? And living together unmarried is no worse than any of the very many secular gentiles who do exactly that and have children too.

Um, no. It was never disrespectful whatsoever. He encouraged using English names and this is simply how his colleagues and contemporaries, respectfully with the titles, referred to him and called him.

In fact, as two quick random examples, these books and publications were authored and published during his lifetime by those who revered him and used exactly that name:

Confrontation: The Existential Thought of Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik, Ktav, 1992

Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik on Human Knowledge: Between Maimonidean and Neo-Kantian Philosophy, Modern Judaism 1986

There is a distinct persistent minority who consider shul to be their social outlet.

Sam2: I don’t know if you were around in his lifetime, but his initials (after his title of Rabbi Dr.) was the name he was most commonly known as and called by during his lifetime.

Oh, you mean before he makes the move to EY but already made the decision to move to EY. In that case he keeps like it is kept in chutz laaretz. He didn’t make the actual move yet so he still a resident of chutz until he makes the actual move.

Some people can pasken for themselves.

charliehall: How would you expect the masses to know that Arnold Schoenberg was one of the best analysts of the European political and international situation of the time?

Aaron Chaim: Nusach Sefard was established by the Arizal, not by Chasidim. And it makes no sense that you can go from Sefardi to Ashkenazi but not the reverse. Everyone is supposed to keep the same minhagim as their father (and their mesora).